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(as for scales); also, for spacing off and cutting teeth in wheels. -- Dividing sinker. (Knitting Mach.). See under Sinker.

Cloth of any kind that is woven or knit from fibers, either vegetable or animal; manufactured cloth; as, silks or other fabrics.

To forge or counterfeit. [Obs.] Shak. Fashioning needle (Knitting Machine), a needle used for widening or narrowing the work and thus shaping it.

The simplest stitch in knitting.

One who deals in hose or stocking, or in goods knit or woven like hose.

Stockings, in general; goods knit or woven like hose.

ommon experience makes it impudence to deny. Locke. Where pride and impudence (in fashion knit) Usurp the chair of wit. B. Jonson.

luble league or covenant. To the which my duties Are with a most indissoluble tie Forever knit. Shak.

The act of interweaving, or the state of being interwoven; that which is interwoven. "Knit in nice intertexture." Coleridge. Skirted thick with intertexture firm Of thorny boughs. Cowper.

A kind of knitted jacket; hence, in general, a closefitting jacket or upper garment made of an elastic fabric (as stockinet).

the door." Longfellow. A loud cry or some great knock. Holland. Knock off, a device in a knitting machine to remove loops from the needles.

a cam or the like for disconnecting something, as a device in a knitting machine to remove loops from the needles.

A bond of union; a connection; a tie. "With nuptial knot." Shak. Ere we knit the knot that can never be loosed. Bp. Hall.

ing of an animal. A second Hector for his grim aspect, And large proportion of his strong-knit limbs. Shak.

orms cloth out of thread; a machine for interweaving yarn or threads into a fabric, as in knitting or lace making. Hector, when he sees Andromache overwhelmed with terror, sends her for consolation to the loom and the distaff. Rambler.

A closely fitting knit sleeve; also, a legging of knitted material. [Scot.]

To contract the size of a stocking or other knit article, by taking two stitches into one.

A slender rod or wire used in knitting; a knitting needle; also, a hooked instrument which carries the thread or twine, and by means of which knots or loops are formed in the process of netting, knitting, or crocheting.

To form network or netting; to knit.

That may be knit together. [R.]